So that will be the back of Ringo's head and Ryan (@ryansgarden) pretending to pose The first time I ever went to Chelsea Flower Show was in 1985 when I was on some YTS scheme (don't ask) a...
So it's been a while yet again. I've been prompted to post on here as I'm writing about blogs for Thinkingardens,and I've felt bad about the amount of neglect my blog receives. Ne...
I thought I would use this blogpost to confess to the world my chronic phone addiction and how this has recently lead me to some very dark places. Once upon a time, not that long ago, I managed to ge...
By some sheer fluke, I appear to be the proud owner of an allotment, which is but 20 yards from my house. This all came about last week and I am extremely excited about getting stuck in. I had been...
I'm going to spare everyone the usual 'gosh I havent blogged for months' as I actually have not bothered to blog for months and months, but I realised the other day that I was missin...
I can't believe I have not blogged since January but I have been busier than ever with my design business as well as getting Gardening School started. We are nearly there at last and I can'...
High excitement at the Orchard Studio with the announcement of our new gardening school website going live. After months of hard work and a lot of emailing and changing things and testing the site an...
Alarmingly the end of the year is closing in and as usual I can't believe where the time has gone. But that's getting old for you. It's been an interesting and sometimes difficult y...
I miss my blog, I miss the connection with other bloggers, and I miss thinking about what I'm going to write next. This last year has taken me by surprise, my life has become busier than ever, n...
Yesterday, after several hours moaning loudly about the state of our garden and how much I hate living in our house, my teenage daughter Grace sighed deeply and with a wisdom beyond her years, said v...
As my deadline for Bath Life was last Friday and I had not managed to get my copy in on time I had to rush off to the Botanical Gardens today to get some images to go with my article. This fuchsia ...
Having returned from our long holiday in Wales it felt like some nesting at home was needed. So I decided to make these lavender biscuits with some flowers which had come on later than the rest. The...
Last weekend I went to Virginia and Leonard Woolf's home, Monk's House, near Lewes in Sussex with my mother and daughter. I have been here before years ago on a trip with the Women's F...
I am steadily getting through my last supply of 600 film which expired in August 2009. These images were taken in Laugharne at Ginst Point, which is a vast deserted beach. Our house is on the hill ov...
Lately it feels as if I've hardly had a chance to pick up my camera. Life has been a whirlwind of activity combining a very busy work life with rushing to our retreat in Wales at every chance. S...
For those of you who have not come across this blog by Rebecka Ryberg Skott, or Becky as I know her, do yourselves a favour and have a look.Incidentally I seem to have just won a caption competition ...
I have hardly had time this year to take any Polaroids and so we ventured out to the beautiful Hanham Court yesterday and took a lot of photos including these. It was a perfect day. One day I will ...
Apart from the fact that designing, building and planting gardens is completely out of control at this time of year, we have also been making the transition to moving part-time to our place in Laugha...
Hanging around again at the Botanical gardens in Bath, this time we were taking some photos for a friends new album cover and had her standing in various trees and posing amongst the Magnolias. I don...
Waiting on the weather to clear and for emails at the studio and decided to have a play around with a new app on my Iphone camera, called Lo-Mob, it produces various types of fake polaroid, emulsions...
This magnolia polaroid was taken on the 14th April last year and I'm already looking forward to photographing them again this year. I noticed over the (very grey) weekend that the buds were real...
It's all good news at the Orchard Studio this week. A couple of weeks ago we ventured to south west Wales to stay at Laugharne, the home of Dylan Thomas and his family before he died in 1953. B...
Recently spotted online these wonderful postcards which become mini gardens in the form of either allotments, botanical gardens or a city garden. From Postcarden - designed in London and printed in W...
I would like to introduce work from some photographer friends of mine on my blog and this week I am starting with Kat Evans, an incredibly sweet and talented self-taught freelance photographer from N...
I have been eagerly waiting for this bulb to flower and it certainly has not disappointed so far. I'd love to tell you which variety it is but I just can't remember! The petals have an amaz...
The Orchard Studio blog has just turned one this week so I thought I would tell you about a few other blogs which I have enjoyed reading over this past year and which have provided me with ideas and ...
As we are working long hours at the studio at the moment I thought I would post a snapshot of my plan-chest and my desk. We are photographing stock for the shop as well as working on plans for severa...
Those of you who regularly read my blog will know that I am crazy for Polaroid. Since I was introduced to the idea of using it a year ago I have fallen in love with the cameras and the wonderful imag...
I have amassed a collection of Ladybird books over the years and recently came across them whilst clearing out my studio. They are unashamedly nostalgic and I find the pictures immediately recall my ...
Dreaming about the summer and planning some changes in my own garden, I came across these images and would quite like this set up, perhaps a bit smaller, of my own! The one thing missing in my lif...
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